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With all of the BAH, STREETCARS! PEDESTRIANS! BIKES BUSSES! STREETS ARE FOR CARS....crap, I am not entirely surprised, and rather even assume that all drivers are totally oblivious and unware of much beyond their own arsehole.

Because man, every damn week some driver nearly kills me, or i witness someone else nearly getting pasted by a careless driver. I will even admit I see stupid pedestrian tricks but note, unlike a car, stupid walking isn't likely to kill anyone but the owner of the feet.

In Toronto, trams don't pull up curbside ( they really should and why they don't is a mystery, they're designed to almost put pedestrians in to traffic constantly. I'm starting to loathe them, really). Cars are NOT to pass on the unloading side while the tram is stopped.

Ever.

EVER EVER EVER EVER.

And invariably people get killed every year because the driver's oblivious and mows into people.

AND.

If you are boxed in by a tram whilst you are parked curbside, the other extension of the law is "DO NOT MOVE, MOTHERFUCKER".

See,this is where drivers could be of great use: if you find yourself in an awkward spot, don't fucking PANIC. I already see you. I'm aware you're there and I have adjusted my trajectory accordingly, and when you suddenly start moving...well, you create some pretty dangerous situations that could have easily not happened if you just stayed fucking put.

This tardfucker decides that trams only unload from the front and as I step off the back doors, and glance to see the way is perfectly clear, ( it was, white infinity qx4 just parked there) I step offthe tram and suddenly infinity guy is gunning backwards and I'm stuck between a monster moving tram, and this guy and I'm sucking in my gut to avoid being so much ground burger.

Because yesterday, someone was killed near there, in what may have been exactly that manner.

So I thump on his tinted windows, of course he can't fucking see me. He probably saw the people get off the front and panicked.

I get to the curb, quite shaken, and he pulls up "I'm sorry I didn't see you!"

"DUDE, you nearly fucking KILLED ME." Had I not thought faster than King fucknut there, and leapt out of the way AND sucked in gut while being very much trapped between two moving vehicles of very big size, I would have been most certainly deader than dead dead.

He gets mad when I don't really accept his "I didn't see you". Its just not an excuse. It was daylight, clear, no snow, and I'm wearing an orange and fuschia scarf, AND YOU WERE pulling an epic illegal move. Sorry just doesn't fucking cut it.

I'm tired of drivers that just can't be arsed to pay any attention. I don't ask for much, but just stop trying to run us all down. Already you have huge swaths of infrastructure devoted to your need to drive, the least you could do is not try to kill me when I make a legal crossing.

Im not a driver and I know the laws better than you.

I swear, distracted driving will be the end of me. I've dodged red light runners and parking garage gunners in vancouver and turn light blowers in halifax and now this.

SLOW THE FUCK DOWN. LOOK before you pull into drive. THINK.

I swear I am going to get stickers "thanks for nearly killing me, fucktard driver" and slapping it on their car, in a way to ruin their paint job. At least then you'll serve as a warning to other pedestrians, that you don't give a fucking shit if you do kill someone.

( frankly, they need to do away with curbside parking altogether here, esp. on queen.)

Anyway. Yeah. if you're a driver and you drive distracted, or unsafe, I will NOT condone it. I will ask to be let out if I'm a passenger. I've let people slide but if you decide to drive like a fucknut, I'll turn you in myself.)

(no subject)

With all of the BAH, STREETCARS! PEDESTRIANS! BIKES BUSSES! STREETS ARE FOR CARS....crap, I am not entirely surprised, and rather even assume that all drivers are totally oblivious and unware of much beyond their own arsehole.

Because man, every damn week some driver nearly kills me, or i witness someone else nearly getting pasted by a careless driver. I will even admit I see stupid pedestrian tricks but note, unlike a car, stupid walking isn't likely to kill anyone but the owner of the feet.

In Toronto, trams don't pull up curbside ( they really should and why they don't is a mystery, they're designed to almost put pedestrians in to traffic constantly. I'm starting to loathe them, really). Cars are NOT to pass on the unloading side while the tram is stopped.

Ever.

EVER EVER EVER EVER.

And invariably people get killed every year because the driver's oblivious and mows into people.

AND.

If you are boxed in by a tram whilst you are parked curbside, the other extension of the law is "DO NOT MOVE, MOTHERFUCKER".

See,this is where drivers could be of great use: if you find yourself in an awkward spot, don't fucking PANIC. I already see you. I'm aware you're there and I have adjusted my trajectory accordingly, and when you suddenly start moving...well, you create some pretty dangerous situations that could have easily not happened if you just stayed fucking put.

This tardfucker decides that trams only unload from the front and as I step off the back doors, and glance to see the way is perfectly clear, ( it was, white infinity qx4 just parked there) I step offthe tram and suddenly infinity guy is gunning backwards and I'm stuck between a monster moving tram, and this guy and I'm sucking in my gut to avoid being so much ground burger.

Because yesterday, someone was killed near there, in what may have been exactly that manner.

So I thump on his tinted windows, of course he can't fucking see me. He probably saw the people get off the front and panicked.

I get to the curb, quite shaken, and he pulls up "I'm sorry I didn't see you!"

"DUDE, you nearly fucking KILLED ME." Had I not thought faster than King fucknut there, and leapt out of the way AND sucked in gut while being very much trapped between two moving vehicles of very big size, I would have been most certainly deader than dead dead.

He gets mad when I don't really accept his "I didn't see you". Its just not an excuse. It was daylight, clear, no snow, and I'm wearing an orange and fuschia scarf, AND YOU WERE pulling an epic illegal move. Sorry just doesn't fucking cut it.

I'm tired of drivers that just can't be arsed to pay any attention. I don't ask for much, but just stop trying to run us all down. Already you have huge swaths of infrastructure devoted to your need to drive, the least you could do is not try to kill me when I make a legal crossing.

Im not a driver and I know the laws better than you.

I swear, distracted driving will be the end of me. I've dodged red light runners and parking garage gunners in vancouver and turn light blowers in halifax and now this.

SLOW THE FUCK DOWN. LOOK before you pull into drive. THINK.

I swear I am going to get stickers "thanks for nearly killing me, fucktard driver" and slapping it on their car, in a way to ruin their paint job. At least then you'll serve as a warning to other pedestrians, that you don't give a fucking shit if you do kill someone.

( frankly, they need to do away with curbside parking altogether here, esp. on queen.)

Anyway. Yeah. if you're a driver and you drive distracted, or unsafe, I will NOT condone it. I will ask to be let out if I'm a passenger. I've let people slide but if you decide to drive like a fucknut, I'll turn you in myself.)